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Ankle Adornment

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Composed of glass beads strung on plant fibre and leather cord. Text: Sandra Ferracuti.

Data Provider
Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Bergdama
Object type
Beinschmuck
Dimensions
Length: 18 cm
Width: 1.2 cm
Material/Technique
Plant fibre, Button, Glass , Leather
moulded, cut, threaded, sewn together
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
023581

Provenance and sources

  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Wassmannsdorf; 0528
  • Production
    when
    around 1900 or earlier
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    Namibia
Provenance
Wassmannsdorf was active in "German South-West Africa" between 1895 and 1898. It is unclear whether he acquired objects himself during this period. Back in Berlin he collected "ethnographica" from all parts of the world and also lent it to local museums. Probably by exchange or donation within the Berlin colonial milieu, Wassmannsdorf acquired parts of the spoils of war from the storming of Hendrik Witbooi's residence Hornkranz in 1893. In 1902, Wassmannsdorf, on the advice of First Lieutenant Kuhn and with the aim of obtaining the award of an Order, donated 44 objects to the Verein für Handelsgeographie. Text: Christoph Rippe.

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